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Yeah, the regular archive (and stuff like old programs, games and music) seem fine. The problem with the library is that some people have been scanning and posting stuff still in copyright. They do only let it out similar to a library, but I guess the publishers have a problem with them doing that?
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The problem with the library is that some people have been scanning and posting stuff still in copyright.
Youtube b1tch please?
But as the archive probably doesn't have a law-deparment so big as google / youtube / other big ones...
They should then complain and give a list to the "to be deleted content", but not sue them
or sue all others too.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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And most of the copyrighted material through high school is knowledge that hasn't fundamentally changed since before the copyrights were amended way back when. Heck, even a lot of college stuff is, too. Calculus came into being over 300 years ago, for Christ's sake! Relativity is over 100 years old!
Their business model needs to change. With their textbook prices on this 'old knowledge,' it is tempting to say **** ****.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yeah, the regular archive (and stuff like old programs, games and music) seem fine. The problem with the library is that some people have been scanning and posting stuff still in copyright. They do only let it out similar to a library, but I guess the publishers have a problem with them doing that?
The reason they're getting sued now is that they went from only lending as many concurrent copies of copyrighted works as they had physical copies of to lending an unlimited amount.
There's a pretty good chance they've fatally ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ed themselves in the process.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I fear you're right. It strikes me that they say that their unlimited lending was for emergency Covid-related purposes. It would be best if they could shut it down now.
If this site is shut down, it's going to take a lot with it.
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As he gives us version 5.7 with support for Apple power tech and better exFAT Hollering about Hollerith
He ran out of first world problems?
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We had a revision of company coding rules a while ago, and some members of the working group insisted on 80 cols max.
The leader of the project I was on immediately granted an exception to that rule: We also had strict rules for generating #define constants, which caused several symbol names to exceed 80 chars.
I think these naming rules are crazy. But if you insist on lines that can be punched on an 80 column card, remember that cols 73-80 are reserved for sequence number (and is ignored by some card readers), cols 1-5 are reserved for the label, and col 6 is the continuation marker. That leaves 66 cols for program code.
I am fond of end-of-line comments, whether in variable/member declarations or code statements. I start them from col 70, to avoid cluttering up the (max 66 char) code lines. That is in my own code, in private projects and projects not bound by the company coding rules 80 char lines.
... but then: These same guys insisting on 80 char line length give rules for how to structure directories and create subdirectory levels for the tiniest little thing. One thing is that these are command-line-tool affectionados, and commnand.exe is, for legacy reasons, never going to return a path name exceeding 260 chars: Most likely, old CLI applications haven't made a bigger buffer, and would overflow. But in one case where the 260 char line was broken, I counted the same module name occuring in seven different directory levels, exactly the same name. Jeeez... I mean, even if you migrated your system to a modern, long-filename world, it makes no sense to repeat the module name seven times in the path! But so it is.
My reaction, when they complain about the 260 char limit: You asked for it, you got it. The length problem, that is.
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Member 7989122 wrote: You asked for it, you got it. The length problem, that is.
Was he always yelling, mine is longer than yours?   
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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This is Microsoft’s way of ensuring that users know that their systems are currently unsupported probably due to one of the known issues or hardware incompatibility. The new mark of shame and/or joy
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Hopefully it is an HTML 5 recreation of one of those old Flash pages with balloons, confetti, and party streamers falling from the top of your webpage! You've Won!
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Now if only they'd follow up and indicate what the blocker is. Knowing that RandomOldApplication or RandomPieceOfHardware isn't compatible would be useful from both sides of the fence.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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"String or binary data would be truncated"
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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A report published by Digital.ai, the parent company of CollabNet VersionOne, finds 43% of organizations have increased their reliance on agile application development methodologies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 15% saying it has increased significantly in the last 90 days. All the people who normally write the specs are off sick?
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Successful load testers anticipate high demand – but at what point do you pass from “high demand” to “ridiculous”? The guideline: Expect the unexpected. "Take a load off Fanny, and you put the load right on me"
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A researcher at Japan’s Meiji University. Miyashita recently created a handheld “lickable screen” that he claims is capable of re-creating every flavor found in food. Tastes like AC
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One step closer to Harry Potter's Every Flavor beans!
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Bought some last Christmas for the wife and kid. I thought they'd just be jellybeans, with normal jellybean flavors. You know, just cute packages for the movie tie-in.
Nope.
There were actual disgusting flavors, as advertised.
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Maybe I am too much of a computer guy. A few years ago, they started selling these jelly beans with 1023 different tastes. My immediate reactio was "What about the last one?"
Then it dawned upon me: They have ten different taste elements that may or may not be included. Like a 10 bit number. But binary value 0000000000 - none of the taste elements inclued - would be a completely tasteless jelly bean. There is the missing one! They didn't include it, or at least didn't count it, as one of the tastes.
I am still curious how much of each element they included. E.g. taste 1111111111, would it have 1/10 of each taste, or would it have a tenfold amount of total taste?
I am not that fond of jelly beans, so I never made a try do determine this from taste. My world doesn't break down even I don't know the answer...
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No, tastes like chicken. And wait until the prOn crowd gets hold of it.
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Does chicken has a taste?
I think modern six-weeks-olds has next to zero taste by themselves. They are merely a substrate for various kinds of spices and sauces.
The day I retire, I may start my own poultry in the back yard, to rase hens like in the old days when a hen tasted like a hen. Not as "chicke spice mix".
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Finally delivering on one of Steve's old promises.
Steve Jobs - "We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Lick a snozberry, it tastes like a snozberry!
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Pascal, a descendant of ALGOL 60 and darling of computer science courses for decades, turns 50 this year. For what it's Wirth
Apologies on that one - it hurt to write, but I felt the pain was necessary.
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